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| No caption required ... Pic by Jahabar Sadiq |
Puchong, 20 Nov: Someone asked me why Lim Kit Siang and I were not there at yesterday's Opposition rally Bersih 5. I was stumped: the DAP strongman wasn't at the Yellow gathering? I realised I didn't remember seeing his pictures from the rally, either! I checked with an Opposition friend immediately. "Dei, of course Uncle Lim was there. See today's front page of Utusan lah". I took his word for it and comforted myself: Ah, okok, so I panicked for no reason. I conveyed the good news to Someone. "Oh, my bad," I thought I heard her say, "I saw Mahathir and Mahathir and Mahathir only at the rally".
Stumped again! Because that's really it, isn't it? When you come to think of the whole thing, and with the benefit of hindsight, yesterday's Bersih 5 was really about Mahathir! It was his show! Imagine if the Tun hadn't flown in with his private jet to join the 40,000-strong Yellow men, women and children, the rally would have been old news. I'm sure Kit Siang would be happier as he would not have to play second fiddle to the Old Man, but it would have been a non-event...
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| Tun M addresses the Yellow people |
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| Dr M waves to the Yellow people, who wave back, of course |
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| Dr M wants 1 million people to attend Bersih 5 |
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| No Kit Siang in the picture, but future PM and DPM at hand |
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| Why do you think PKR Shamsul Iskandar isn't wearing the Bersih shirt? |
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| Yellow shirt, Red carpet |
Can't wait for Bersih 6? I know, right ...
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The BN Minister believes Bersih 5's poor turnout was due to the presence of Dr Mahathir!
